#killed me to turn him down on this playthrough 😭

[vodkacheesefries]

I have a theory I can't prove and is based solely on my personal experiences, but the venn diagram of lesbians who are in love with Alistair from Dragon Age and lesbians who are in love with Wyll from Baldur's Gate 3 is a circle

and I am at it's center

[ageless-aislynn]

Yay, Detroit: Become Human has joined my 100%'ers! Why do I care? I don't even know. I just really love seeing that blue banner on them, lol!

SPOILERS, if anybody cares, though I kept 'em a little vague just in case. 😉

I have to say that this last playthrough to get the final achievements wasn't exactly a fun one. It required Machine!Connor and Hostile!Hank and if you know your DBH, then you know what ending that gets you for Hank. 😭😭😭 (I have to admit, though, once I got in the groove of it, I kinda had fun getting Connor killed a bazillion times. Machine!Connor REALLY is lousy at his job and definitely should never get in a fight, lol!)

Kara and Alice had be captured and sent to the camps, which was stressful (and I had to reset once because my sometimes shaky hands caused me to bump the left stick when she was supposed to stand still and I, um, got Kara shot 😧). I managed to keep Luther alive, though, and my precious little android family stayed together.

I love them so much, I can't even! 💖💖💖

Lastly, Markus had to choose a violent revolution and that got my Simon killed!

Excuse me but NO. I did NOT sign up for THAT. I unfortunately couldn't get around that one so had to grudgingly go forward. But I think I'll redo that chapter and see if I can't either save Simon or send Markus out with him in a spectacular Simarkus blaze of glory! 🔥😡🔥😂 (C'mon, I'm sure North can handle the rest of the revolution on her own, right? 🤷‍♀️😂😉)

As a matter of fact, she can, as that GIF proves, lol! 😎👍

I still really miss Chloe in the main menu but I turned down the offer of a "new" Chloe because my girl deserves to be free. I just miss her. *sniffle*

I like to imagine she's off somewhere in the DBH world, having lovely adventures and thinking fondly of me, her friend, who let her go.

And, you know, maybe finding some romance with Nines? (Thanks to the wonderful power of mods, lol)

I greatly enjoyed this game and no doubt will be back to play it completely through again, this time just absolutely winging it because I'm not trying to get a certain outcome for an achievement. 😉💖💖💖

[nikatyler]

✨ Ross Goes to Baldur's Gate ✨

I might blow this place up but I can't help it I need to play

(context: I was away from home. Didn't have my laptop cooling pad. Electricity situation there is not the greatest. When I play this game, my laptop turns into a really hot burning heater with or without the pad. We survived tho!)

Ross down already 🤦‍♀️

Lae'zel has really bad experience with heights in this playthrough 💀 An eagle just knocked her down from the roof. But she's alive!

Back on my pickpocketing bs

Alright, back home now and I can post some pictures from my earlier session! Karlach girl please don't scare me thank you :))))) you'll be fine :)))) you have to be fine :))))) i won't have it any other way queen :))))))

fren!!!! I was worried when the owlbear just wasn't showing at my camp for so many long rests but they came finally

Listen I love him and all but if he ate the owlbear I'd have no choice but to grab a wooden stake. Killing people is fine but I draw the line at an owlbear snack 🤷‍♀️

Scratch my boyyyy <3 you're gonna have a friend soon 🥺

wrong way starry boy the eagle is over there

Back on my pickpocketing bs, as I said 😌 they weren't very smart

yeah no wonder he gets downed every battle clumsy idiot (affectionate)

oop the first picture isn't from when he tried to vandalize the picture, oh well 😂

I reloaded and let Astarion do it instead, he's such an artist 😌

I've said this before but I love how when she's not all threatening, her face is literally 🥺 she's a sweet babie i said what i said

the WHAT nooooo 😭😭

babie babie babie

Original thread.

[riddlerosehearts]

some more, slightly longwinded thoughts on various things i've done in act 1 of bg3 with my half-elf bard tav, elenion:

i ran into raphael and basically told him to fuck off because why would we ever accept "help" from a devil after seeing what just happened with wyll and mizora??

i also investigated the beach and found the harpies. i wonder if it was actually them that the squirrels were complaining about earlier and not alfira's beautiful song.

gale is hilarious but i'm now imagining elenion, who has already chosen to project an image of them on a romantic walk with gale into his head, rolling their eyes and thinking "so that's what i might be getting myself into if we survive all this."

i think i need to try and get into the habit of talking to everyone at camp after anything big happens even if they don't have a ! over their heads. i went to camp and accidentally clicked on astarion, and he had quite a bit to say about raphael and then so did everyone else!

lae'zel is so funny sometimes actually. i kind of love her.

also, the investigate the beach quest seems to have bugged out for me--it didn't complete after getting the letter from the kid we saved, which i assume was the end of the quest, but the objective was still to find mol who had no new dialogue. and then after i beat the goblin leaders the quest suddenly completed and changed to say "the situation has changed in the grove. mol is busy dealing with other matters." that's kind of annoying, but i'm guessing/hoping it won't really cause any issues??

anyway. i investigated kagha, and when i confronted her i got an option to recite the history told on the plaques in the grove as a way of convincing her to turn against the shadow druids. i knew my dedication to reading every bit of flavor text that i can find would come in handy somewhere! also, the game says that you just speak the text that was etched into the plaques, but since elenion is a bard i'm choosing to pretend that he turned it into a song.

after that i set out toward the goblin camp to save halsin and defeat the leaders. on the way there i got a dream sequence with the guardian i made in character creation, going "i've been protecting you from everything and btw you should totally embrace the ilithid powers". i had no idea what the guardian was going to be used for so i just made her look basically like how i thought elenion's mother would look, except i gave her the wrong eye color by mistake. i imagine that would feel very strange and would make it obvious that someone is trying to magically use his mother's face to manipulate him but has gotten a significant detail wrong.

everyone else at camp had the same dream and all had something to say about it! elenion basically told everyone he isn't sure he trusts this mysterious dream visitor, because really, i just do not see why he should from a roleplay perspective. he also is not opening his mind to the tadpole specimens, at least not for now. we'll see if anything that happens later in the story changes that.

minthara wiped my party once when i tried fighting her normally, so the second time around i killed her by luring her onto a bridge and then destroying it out from under her. i didn't get her loot that way, but it was hilarious. will probably try to beat her legitimately on a second playthrough.

i forgot to say earlier, i love how investigating the shadow druids gives you the ability to make kagha see the error of her ways and redeem her. i am still kind of mad that she tried to imprison a child, but i think she's actually a very interesting character.

kind of hilarious to me how lae'zel was very clearly expressing... interest in my tav at the party and was all "well, it's your loss, then" when they turned her down whereas astarion, completely unprompted, was like "gods i wish i was having sex with someone right now. but not you obviously, that would be awful". 😭 well you know what, elenion is gorgeous and smart and a musician (an inherently sexy thing to be) so maybe that's your loss!

i think i also could've ended up getting a romantic scene with shadowheart (she wanted to share a bottle of wine after everyone else went to sleep), but i chose not to do anything with her. although now i'm curious if i could've done it and just, like, made it platonic somehow? or if sharing a bottle of wine with her would've automatically been romantic.

i've heard that if you trigger the weave scene with gale at the party then the other companions will have dialogue where they react to the budding romance. which sounds hilarious but i got his approval up very quickly just by having my character be nice to people, and got the weave scene earlier, so i didn't get that dialogue. oh well! i still got a very sweet conversation with him. all of this talk about tara makes me wish she could come on the journey with us :(

i'm so glad we get to see alfira again at the party. i wish she could be a companion tbh, it'd be nice to still have a bard around if you don't play as one.

and speaking of alfira, once again i'm obsessed with the dialogue options in this game:

i picked the mixed heritage option because although elenion hates to boast or reveal too much about himself, i think he is very proud of his family. but i love that you have the option to be like "if you're going to write a song about me then it obviously has to be about how hot i am" or "if you dare write a song about me i will actually kill you".

anyway uhhh. what else. i'm sure that i've missed plenty of things i could've done so far, for example i ended up finding a dead tiefling beside a telescope on a hill and i bet if i'd gone up there sooner i could've saved her. i bet i also could've gotten higher approval with at least karlach or lae'zel and seen what might've changed about their dialogue at the party if i'd progressed more in their quests first. i think i may have also missed the chance to adopt a baby owlbear. and i'll probably end up missing even more things! but that's fine because i already know i'm going to be doing multiple playthroughs of this game.

i think now before i do anything else i am going to work on karlach's personal quest, because i still haven't taken down those paladins and i need to get some answers out of her.

[kimmkitsuragi]

WELL HELLO to my new tav who will absolutely make astarion worse <3

i tried my best to make her look like cazador !!! honestly im happy w it so far. she's a high elf, storm sorcerer. my first time playing a sorcerer so im excited for that as well <3

i like this shot a lot here hehe. also i like the character portrait a lot too (dont know how well it will look on tumblr since it's tiny but sdhfdfs) :

weeeeell i made her a storm sorcerer bc fuck cazador spamming call lighting on us !! lol and the starting dress of this subclass looks soooo good i love it (and im playing on explorer this time so it might all be a little easy anyway but it looks like combat will be very fun w sorcerer)

also, if i was astarion i would be like are u fucking KIDDING ME after seeing lucilla like ???? oh i know for sure now gods really do hate me huh 😭

i just realized i never explained my thought process behind this btw: i LOVE the take on cazador's "favoritism" of astarion being because astarion looks like vellioth. this is an insane crazy punching walls chewing glass kinda take if u ask me. like cazador being calculating and cold to the other spawn (wrt his ascension plans too), but him turning astarion being a crime of passion for him....... because he looks like his old master......... insane ! so i was like, what if astarion has a similar experience with his "dark consort". he may start manipulating lucilla for his usual reason (protection) but later it turns into a similar obsession. obviously post-game (perhaps even a century later or something) lucilla will be the vampire lord after being fed up with astarion's bullshit treatment and killing him. cycle of violence etc,, but in the beginning, she thinks that she's the one in power over astarion (and perhaps it's true to some extent), which is why she agrees to ascension and becoming a vampire. bc she thinks ultimately it will grant her power too. but well obviously she ends up as a spawn to ascended astarion............ for him, she's the one "with the sweetest screams" now <3

i could probably write more but well if anyone's reading this, im sure u guys get it :3 also im so mind foggy as always lol sooooo tldr i will enjoy this playthrough VERY MUCH i feel like :^) whenever i get around to playing it lol

side note: after lynn (who i will continue as my main run i think), playing with lucilla a little bit felt so !!!! bc playing an actually good character feels so hard to me lol. like lou was good too, but he was also not the hero-type selfless good. he was very much looking out for himself first, and also wasnt against manipulation when necessary lol. lynn is the selfless hero-type... meanwhile lucilla will be absolutely chaotic and power hungry yayyyy

(rip to my other 2 durges laila and llywelya,, they aint dead but i still havent played w them for more than 1 hour or so lmao)

(also i think i might romance gale with llywelya. i can see him being down bad for the hot barbarian buff half-orc lady. i have the vision now i understand it) (this means i have new other ideas for a laezel romance obviously...) (also cant wait to be absolutely evil w laila for minthy because i STILL havent even met her properly lmao) (maybe i should side w minthara in my lucilla run hmm) (welcome to my twisted distracted mind w all these parentheses lol)

i just created yet another tav BUT hear me out... i made her have cazador's features (as much as i could, without mods) and she will have the ascended astarion romance route. obviously .

[parallel-selfs]

Glorious Masquerade (chapter 3)

Translation by Gasumasuku Gamer, Ekala and Otome Ayui. EN playthrough by RoseEmber.

(Smug Malleus activated. I love him teasing Grim, it's cute)

"I would immediately fall if I tried to use those stilts."

"The music is getting me more excited for this festival."

Oh, it's Snow White and the Cheshire Cat.

(I found the Micky mouse!)

(I'm curious what Royal Sword Academy's costumes look like)

Sits in the middle of the table, Grim on her left and Firefly on her right. Slowly leans on Malleus's shoulder because friend.

Once Sebek and Grim start arguing, she picks up the cat and places him on her lap to stop the fuss.

(Rollo can't be at my cool kid table, unless we kick Idia or Sebek out.)

"I didn't do research because I wanted to be surprised."

The damn puppet.

"It's a form of entertainment. I watched a few shows with the concept."

It was lava. She knows what happened, but says nothing.

He was protecting the city from his "teacher."

He wasn't exceptional, he was a murderer!

Deep, unshakable bond? He tried to kill the boy! Twice!

Biting her tongue the whole time in anger and tries to not let it show on her face, but a scowl could be seen.

It was the festival of fools where a knight threw a tomato at him and everyone started attacking him.

(I like that, magicless people being able to use magic too)

Walks over to Idia and offers hand. "Come on, Idia. Dance with me."

Crouches down. "Grim, you were told to not use magic in the city."

Just watching the fireworks instead of joining in because she's still new to magic.

(The impatientess from just tapping his finger)

"Yeah magic is dangerous, especially in the wrong hands. But erasing all magic I don't agree with. I have seen what magic can do and how it can harm others, but I have also seen it as something beautiful and fun."

(Boy, Alice has faced eight overblots, she fully understands magic and what it's capable of doing)

Before she could reply to his comment, Grim comes over, ("Mom, look at what I can do!"). Walks away with Grim while glaring at Rollo.

Would definitely come to the festival again.

(Seriously, why is the fireplace so freaking big?!)

Your judgement has arrived.

Grim cries out mom.

"Guys, I think we need to get out of here." Turning to head out of the door and finds more flowers.

Backs up to get away from the flowers while her mind races on what's happening.

A flower wraps around her ankle just to jerk herself away and stomp on the crimson flower before running to Trein.

Professor Trein soon figures out by observing how the flowers seem to feed off of the magic they use.

(Chenya is fucking pissed, damn)

(Now that raises the question, how did Rollo get a hold of something that's extinct?)

Sebek goes to yell out just for Alice to beat him to it. "I knew it!! I knew you were up to something!!"

Rollo is thrown off guard by her furious voice and burning eyes, but only for a second.

(The name is now literal) Holy shit.

The floor disappears under her and yells, "oh shit!" as her body drops into the unknown. Malleus calls out her name and she glances over to him taking her in his arms, holding her tightly against his chest as they fall.

(I can't believe EN added puns)

(Why did Epel whisper it to Grim? Say it out loud, Alice is confused and anxious.)

Malleus slams down on his back with her on top. "Sorry, Malleus."

"Azul, don't be a kiss ass."

My back is starting to hurt.

Unsettled by the screams.

Azul was going to ask how Alice knew Rollo was up to something, but Idia cuts him off.

She sees the flowers approaching and pulls on his arm to get him to move, but sees the smile on his face and gets worried.

Looks at her friend who just intensity staring. She takes his hand in hers and rubs her thumb on the back of it.

I doubt he feels responsible, Epel.

Riddle, rules have nothing to do with guilt.

Lets go of him and backs away from the power bursting off of him.

(😭)

She runs over and hugs him. He chuckles with a smile and pats her head. "Were you worried about me?"

"Malleus! Please calm down!"

Shields herself from the blast and gets knocked onto the ground. She uncovers her face and stands up to stare at where Malleus was. Panic sets in.

"Of course I was!... You dummy." Mutters the last part against his chest. He softly chuckles.

(Now we know how they were destroyed centuries ago)

"I'm sorry, Professor Trein, but it has to be said. You guys are fucking assholes."

"When we fell into the waterway, I tried to safeguard Katelynn, as my friend is still learning how to use magic..."

(I'm curious how different the dialogue would be if it was fully after Book 7)

"Azul, I will slap you."

Tool that spreads magic through the city? "Oh! The bell!" Alice and Malleus say at the same time.

Bites tongue again.

"Miss Winter, who has faced many challenges..." -Trein

"I'll do my best to help."

"Yes, Grim will be the coolest."

Gremlin Epel.

And they never had the chance to question her on why she yelled, "I knew it" at Rollo.

[vulpiximisa]

Wow, if I was particularly let down by the Blackened in Case 2, Case 3 was Let Down Extreme

Like Case 3 had the potential to be so good and fun, seances and rituals. The obvious suspect of Kiyo was too obvious that it Shouldn’t have been him. So it turning out To Be Him was suuuuuch a let down

I thought Tenko committing suicide to repent for accidentally killing Angie would have been sooo much more interesting. But now I’m like, wondering if the cases so far also have small connections to the past Killing Games. The way Kiyo was boiled alive and the angle of him in the fire reminded me of Celeste’s execution. And once again Case 3, two deaths.

Anyway, I liked Tenko on first intro, disliked her when she became a Himiko simp, started liking her when she wanted to make up, and now she’s dead 😭

Just thinking about “See you guys after the seance!” makes me so fucking sad. It made me think of Natasha in Avengers Endgame when she was like “see you guys later” before they all time warped to get the stones and she never came back to them 😭😭😭😭😭😭

On another note *THROTTLES KAITO* YOU!!!! STOP COUHGING IP BLOOD YOUUU!!!!

but the night after I finally used the Hotel Key, after a few resets, got a night with him, so like, yeah 😏

Anyway, my theory still stands, the world ended, they were brought here to repopulate the world. Not sure what Rantaro’s video could mean. My sis watching my playthrough figured out what the graffiti on the stone Gonta keeps finding could mean so I’m 🤔

But I bet it’s going to turn out to be something stupid and way over the top because ngl I was never a big fan of the DR plot twists. Most of it is Telling without Showing or they will just throw some plot points out the window because whatever in the grand scheme of things. (I will never forgive the DR2 countdown)

[kingdomhearts-and-soriku-trash]

KH 2 Playthrough pt2:

UGH nvm it’s not the scene. I have to fight Xigbar😔.

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Oh my gosh do I HATE fighting Xigbar. Just disappearing and stuff and like fricking shooting me. Gosh his finish move almost killed me, but thankfully I have the “At least 1 HP is left after a combo,” thing on bc if not I would’ve died.

I died once and I’m so glad I beat him the second time-

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THE SCENE!! IM AT THE SCENE😭😭.

Riku just leaving and Sora stopping him to say thanks….I bet it really hurt him-

AND THEN KAIRI REVEALING TO SORA THAT IT’S RIKU IN FRONT OF HIM!!

And then he falls to his knees and cries while holding Riku’s hand😭😭😭. Y’all I love this and I can’t wait to see Riku turn back into himself and be able to fight with him hnnng-

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Leveling up and stuff and I just remembered the “Final Form” exits for our drive gauge, and I finally got it because I don’t think I ever got it but I’m excited now :))). Gotta level this one up and master up too. I need those jumps so I can get all of my beloved puzzle pieces and beat the game-

I mainly got it by going to Olympus and doing the Cerberus cup (even if I already beat it)

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Leveled up my master form too and hehe I’m excited to beat the game again >:))).

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UGHH!! The card guy made me mad but I beat him on the first try >:)). But ALSO! I talked to Riku and he said,

“Humph. Not bad, Sora. You’ve grown stronger. You don’t need my weapon, Soul Eater, or the power of the dark yet.”

Jokes on him bc Sora already has some dark power within him

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Fighting Siax now and whenever he starts his little dusk attack, Riku grabs Kairi and covers her with him and they get pushed back. I bet they’re worried for Sora, but I found that moment between them so sweet🥺.

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The flashback of Riku looking at Roxas collapsed on the ground in TWTNW is showing after I beat Saix. I see Riku walk up to him and he has the keyblade up in his hand, position to be thrown down onto Roxas. Idk if it was truly meant to hit him, but we see Riku hesitate and throw it to the ground beside him. Ik its probably nothing but my mind was like

“Riku never truly wanted to hurt Roxas, but he wanted Sora to wake up, so he had to hurt him and use the darkness. But when it came to actually hurting him in this way, he couldn’t bring himself to do it. A part of Sora was in there and he couldn’t imagine hurting him anymore, and he didn’t want to hurt anyone any more.”

And then when it’s clear that he truly is Sora’s nobody, Riku gives into the dark just to wake sORA UP AAAAAH-

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“I have accepted it.”

DiZ shows up and Riku puts his hood on to avoid his gaze😭. He didn’t want anyone to look at him while he was this way-

“DiZ, he told me he could feel Sora.” (Riku)

“Oh, he told you how he “felt”, did he?” (DiZ)

“Ridiculous. A nobody cannot feel anything. If he had met Sora, things might have been different.”

AND THEN THE FLASHBACK ENDS AND RIKU’S LIKE, “Maybe I didn’t need to fight him after all. I think he left the organization because…he really wanted to meet you.”

Y’all I’m emotional over everything related to Roxas and Sora😭.

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NOOO.

“I wish I could meet him, too.” (Sora)

HNNNG SORAAAA!!! The poor boy is going through so many emotions.

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“The path is open. Demand is waiting up ahead. He’s the leader of Organizatjon XIII. Try not to slow me down, Sora.”

You know he’s been WAITING to say that little dig, even if he truly would do anything to help Sora-

Like tag a lightsaber hit to the side to stop it from killing Sora😭.

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“All my research amounted to nothing, compared with that one boy’s heart.” (DiZ about Sora)

YES OUR ONE BOY IS VERY SPECIAL AND AMAZING😭💙.

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DiZ admitting his ignorance is so good hnnng. I’m lost on the lore, but I love it when people admit they’re wrong and I love him roasting Xemnas.

ALSO! When the thing explodes, Riku dashes to everyone else and holds them back to protect them. Especially Sora. Sora runs to try to go to DiZ to help him or do something, but Riku stops him and GOSH I LOVE RIKU!!!

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“And just who were you trying to fool? Huh? Huhhh?” (Sora to Riku)

“Myself.” (Riku)

Y’all I’m losing it😭😭😭. And the way Sora looks so sad immediately after that.

“C’mon, man! Why did you try to do so much on your own? You got friends…like us!” And everyone smiles to him and it’s all so sweet because Sora is reminding Riku of his friends and how he is cared for-

And then Riku replies, “Have you forgotten? I’ll tell you why. ‘Cause I’m not a total sap like you.”

He just had to make a joke and slightly ruin the sweet moment😂.

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Sora seeing the heartless problem and immediately going, “What do we do, Riku?”

He has someone else to rely on now, and doesn’t have to only think by himself and he’s getting someone else’s opinion and plan….I love our boy😭.

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Okay that’s enough for one post so✌️.

[parasite-core]

My run has taken a bad turn. I haven’t lost, exactly, but I’ve taken a huge hit to my morale.

I knew that the fight with Marcus would be rough, I’ve had trouble with it in explorer in the past, and initiative order is key.

Well my initiative was absolute dog shit. Astarion went first and then there were like six enemies between him and my next PC. So they swarmed Isobel, despite me putting everyone at the most advantageous positions I could manage. And one of the flying ghouls paralyzed Shadowheart before her first turn, so my plan to keep Isobel healed with Shadowheart went out the door. I killed Marcus, but his ghouls kept swarming Isobel, and without someone who could heal her more than a few hp at a time, she went down on round 2.

Meaning the entirety to Last Light is dead. Including all the tieflings except Rolan and any who are still prisoners. Barcus is dead which was absolutely heart wrenching. Dammon is dead, which was also devastating. Alfira is dead, because I’m cursed and cannot keep her alive for one gods-damned playthrough. I *did* manage to keep Jaheira alive in the following battle, so she’s at camp with us but is also really beaten down.

And now I won’t have any help in the fight invading Moonrise. And Isobel will be fighting against me in Ketheric’s last stand. And I have NO idea what Lady Aylin will do once she finds out, I’ve never played a run before where I kept Allyn alive but also got Isobel killed 😕

THEN on top of everything else, I got the information about Thaniel from the flaming fist guy’s corpse, and did the fight to protect the portal. I was down to only 1 round left 😭 I’d been doing good clearing the archers, although they got enough shots in to be a problem. I even used Barrelmancy to clear out the worst of the hordes. But then one single shadow slipped past after the portal had been sustaining ranged damage, and a single hit from the shadow destroyed the portal, killed Halsin, and doomed the Shadowcursed Lands to never be saved.

So yeah…

It’s been a rough day.

I’ve decided to try my hand at an Honor Mode run. I’m playing a blue Dragonborn white dragon sorcerer. I made a beeline for Withers so I could do some class changes. I’ve changed Shadowheart’s domain to Life, and I’ve made Lae’Zel a Paladin. Astarion is remaining an assassin rogue like he is in all my playthroughs. Gale I am debating, but for the time being he’s remaining an evocation wizard.

I’ve made it to the Grove with few problems thus far, but we’ll see how I hold up in the swamp and Goblin Fortress.

[riddlerosehearts]

more thoughts on my baldur's gate 3 playthrough! still running around exploring this giant city and trying to make my way through act 3. in this post, i continue gale's companion quest.

all right, so i explored the city a bit more. found carm's garms and uhh, also found naaber. i'm dying at him trying to be a cleric, praying really really badly and when you ask what god he's praying to he goes "there's more than one?!" like HOW do you get to be a grown adult in this world and not know that skjdafg 😭

anyway, i exhausted all of his dialogue. thought it was kind of funny but was surprised at how bizarre and out of place he felt and especially by the fact that he talks kind of like spongebob. looked him up to see if there was anything more to his entire deal and found out that apparently he's a running gag from previous baldur's gate games! so that's neat, but i seem to have turned the poor guy into an oathbreaker paladin. oops!

also found the harper hideout, did the battle there and learned about minsc! i know he's from a previous game like jaheira is, and i also know he's recruitable later. not sure i'll end up using him any, especially since i already thought halsin and jaheira became recruitable a little too late, but maybe once i meet him i'll change my mind.

then i continued the murder investigation, and on my way to progress through the quest we got invited to gortash's coronation! made sure to bring karlach along with me for that and damn, she was immediately SO ready to kill him. he says a single sentence and she says she can taste his blood. and then she yells at him and stops just short of saying she's going to shove her boot up his ass LMAO. i also had wyll with me and there was a bit of extra dialogue about his father!

i'm actually a bit annoyed about how the whole deal with mizora plays out because like, there's this whole theme of the companions reclaiming their agency and i believe letting shadowheart make the choice to spare the nightsong on her own is actually the "correct" option over trying to persuade her. so... why do you have to choose whether wyll should break his pact or save his father? why can't you tell wyll to make the choice for himself? and tbh i also feel like there's basically zero chance that wyll as a character would ever not choose his father anyway, whereas with shadowheart there's this tension and ambiguity where right up until that moment you can't be sure what she'll do, so that's another flaw in how wyll is written imo. oh well.

walked into a church in the city and there is a statue of mystra here. elenion made small offerings to tyr and helm and a larger offering to selune, but for mystra? he kissed gale in front of her statue and then left <3

lakrissa and alfira are so cute 🥺 i found them on the roof of the tavern and alfira was looking out at the city and said she'd never get tired of this view, while lakrissa who was looking at alfira said "same here"... god i'm so weak for that sort of thing.

honestly i've wished alfira had been recruitable ever since i first encountered her in the game, and i guess if she was then we would lose this sweet wlw couple, which would also be a shame AKLJGHDF but idk i like her a lot and i think having her around and getting to know more about her would've been fun!! especially since i think it's a huge shame that there isn't a bard companion.

hey, i finally figured out where sorcerous sundries is! the lorroakan fight was a little annoying with all his myrmidons running around, but i did manage to cast tasha's hideous laughter on him for a few turns, which was hilarious. god i can't wait to get elenion up to level 11 so he can learn otto's irresistible dance.

the vault frustrated me in a way that i don't think it was supposed to, because wyll got downed from a trap without me realizing and i got kind of lost trying to get back to where he got downed at and then i forgot how to get back to the beginning of the vault so i could leave omg. i'm probably the only person in the world to have that kind of trouble with it. but oh well, we got gale his super dangerous-sounding book!!

and then i got to see the gorgeous boat scene that i've seen so many gifs of. and i love gale so much askdjghfdsgjhdf i'm 😭😭 first of all i will never understand how anyone could hate a man who says things like "with you, i forget my goddess" and "you put the stars to shame". that second quote especially is killing me because it feels so tailor-made for my tav! and then the fact that he is so surprised and relieved that they love him just the way he is!! aaaaaaaaaa i'm going to explode. hate when people say gale fumbled a goddess because she's the one who fumbled him!

going to end this post here, now that i've seen gale's talk with mystra, so i can take a look at my quest log and decide which of the 93475384 sidequests i've picked up should be handled next!